Japanese Textile Workshops  日本のテキスタイル ワークショップ

Living in a small mountain village just outside of Tokyo, I grow a crop of indigo every year and process the leaves into dye using traditional methods. I also breed silk moths, raise the silkworms and then reel/spin the silk from the cocoons. The silk is then dyed with natural dyes and finally woven on traditional Japanese looms. I run several ten-day live-in workshops a year at the old farmhouse here in Japan focusing on the Japanese use of indigo. Contact me for information.

Tuesday, 30 April 2013

Flood of Guests to Best Exotic Indigo Hotel

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Liz tagged the house,"The Best Exotic Indigo Hotel" last year. Someone referred to her moniker and it stuck through the duration o...
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Wednesday, 10 April 2013

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The past few months have been busy. Spring came several weeks early. It's early arrival cheated us from that extra few weeks of sufferin...
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Monday, 1 April 2013

Ogata san Modeling

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Hanna and Yehia and kids were visiting from FInland for a week. They brought some clothes designed by a friend in Helsinki and were looking ...
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Monday, 25 March 2013

Mulberry Cultivation for Silkworms Hint

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Three years back I needed some mulberry saplings for a new mulberry field nearer to the house. It was June and slightly too late to take cut...
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Snoopy Bonemeal Lotus Food.

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Snoopy was cremated at the local Zen temple and her urn has been in the house with fresh flowers the past four months. At first you could fe...
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Two Month Live in Apprentice: Mini chan

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I get requests for long-term live-in apprentices. I want to teach young designers about indigo and silk and Japanese textiles in depth. It o...
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Sunday, 24 March 2013

Katazome Technique Number Five: Hikibori

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The final technique is Hikibori . This is the technique most commonly used for Yukata, (cotton summer kimono) and Yuzen dyeing. The blade ...
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My home is in a vertical mountain village in Fujino just outside of Tokyo. It is here, in my 150 year old silk farming house I hold classes and workshops related to Japanese textiles. Our village shrine dates back 650 years. I’ve dug up dozens of 5000-year-old Jomon-era pottery shards near by. Twenty-one houses are scattered and perched on ledges along a narrow twisting road. Most of the somewhat ramshackle farmhouses designed for silk farming cling poetically to the deep shadows of afternoon. The land reached by the sun was either too steep to build on or was used to grow enough food to survive. From the front of my house I can see well-tended tea terraces ascending impossibly upward. Climb up the hillside and from the queues of tea you can survey my old farmhouse and on extra clear days even spy a self-conscious Mt Fuji.
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